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Old May 13, 2020 | 3:24 am
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Originally Posted by BigLar
I never could figure out how a computer could run full steam with just the battery, and have to back off on the gas pedal when a slightly underpowered charger was attached (along with the battery). I presumed it was just marketing hype and I can't prove they were really doing it, but it sure seemed goofy to me.
If you want a stranger one, I recently refurbished one of our Thinkpads (T520 IIRC) and couldn't get the damn thing to run the quad core CPU faster than .8GHz. Tried multiple 130w power supplies, nothing. Lo and behold, when I put a battery in the system, the CPU came up to full power. It didn't matter whether the battery was dead/useless or good. The laptop just refused to come up to full steam without one physically installed.
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